Sunday 12 July 2020

One Daily Positive - Week 28 Friendships

Took my Covid test this week, made me gag and sneeze 20 times. It's for the Imperial College London looking at symptoms of the virus. Results came back on Wednesday, I didn't have Covid as of Sunday morning at 8am when I took the test.

Almost 10 years ago I started volunteering with a charity in South Africa that hands out around 100,000 Christmas boxes every year to vulnerable children. In Pretoria where we lived I was part of a team distributing up to 7000 boxes a year. it involved finding the facilities, registering them, collecting the name lists, age and clothing size of the children, finding donors, collecting, checking boxes, getting sponsorship for drop off venues, transport, storage units etc. Moving to Dubai after 4 years, I've continued to support the charity and other facilities, organisations I became involved with and go back twice a year (apart from 2016 when I was teaching) to source donations, pack boxes and distribute them. For the past 5 years also I've been uploading the names of all the children online for the donors to choose a child, sex and age to pack for.
In Dubai I've been unable to fund raise or share fundraising posts without registering the charity over there. I no longer advertise the name of the organisation, even when I'm in the UK due to a conflict of interest and this will be the last year I support them. From now on I'm involved with a charity called Kindness Like Confetti PTA. The same people, just supporting a variety of facilities year round rather than just once a year.

Child 1's care plan finally arrived, more issues. Both sets of parents addresses and phone numbers have been released to both parties. We will be raising a formal complaint. We also can't get an answer to why about 4 years ago the word 'autism' appeared as a formal diagnosis. We have no idea where it's come from and as her disability and care needs haven't changed, we would like to know who made this diagnosis and why we weren't informed at the time.

To do:
Postcards of Kindness
Name Lists
Mow the Lawn
Sort paperwork
Write up address book
Jigsaw
Tidy Craft Room

187 Sunday Lazy morning, jigsaw, put beef in slow cooker, some blog comments, then out up the hills to join a friend with their dog for a walk for 3 hours. Altered and hung the last curtain for the bedroom, nice and dark and should start sleeping better. Just need to remember to close the ensuite door or fit a black out blind in there. The trouble with a black out blind is I'd have to switch the light on and the fan is noisy. Late night gin call with my friend Kath, bed at midnight.

188 Monday A lazy day which didn't get going till midday, pottered around, started a new jigsaw, put a plant in, did some washing, wrote up name lists, walked the dog.

189 Tuesday Long walk to the other side of town to buy an engagement, 2 sympathy, 1 birthday and congrats you're pregnant cards. My next door neighbour owns the shop, it's out of the town and the social distancing works really well in there. I tidied up the craft room, finished altering and hanging new curtains.

190 Wednesday Drove to Witney for a coffee date with Galina, had a picnic in the car park and then meet up with Mary and her son for a walk around the farm park, Bob didn't like the animals and barked at a pig, then off to drop table and chairs with child 5 and last weeks washing and ironing.


191 Thursday Click and collect food shop and picked up milk for the week so I can check the dates. Took Bob for a long walk in the afternoon in the rain and visited a children's charity shop that's only open 2 days a week with funny opening hours, bought a few bits for when our grandchild can finally visit.
Gin and raspberries

192 Friday Washing on, green house built, more seeds planted, name lists finished and uploaded, jigsaw completed, post cards written. I took mum to the garden centre at B&Q, 5 minutes down the road, to give her a taste of how the shops are operating, social distancing, paying for items and not touching things just to have a look. Came back with a load of plants for the garden.

193 Saturday Off to Eastnor Castle with mum, friend, Kath, and her husband and twins. Numbers are limited and tickets have to be bought in advance. It's 3 years today since my father died. Kath and I have decided that today is a celebration of our friendship. Bob had a lovely long walk, we had a picnic and bought coffee and ice creams. In the afternoon I mowed the lawns and rearranged the sheds.

On the blog this week:

A visit to the Lavender Fields in the Cotswolds


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30 comments:

  1. A busy social calendar this week for you! I was happy to meet you finally in real life. Maybe we could do it again, when the lockdown is over completely, with Mary, and our guys. Your commitment to the charity helping vulnerable children is admirable, you're such an inspiration! Your garden looks neat and tidy.

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    1. It was great to meet with you at last, yes we must do it again

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  2. Awww how lovely to meet up with some other bloggers. It's lovely to be getting out and about with your mum too. I end up shaking my head at the goings-on with your daughter every week - it's unbelievable ! The charity sounds great - good that you found a UK version to carry on with :)

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    1. I'm really enjoying get out and about a lot more, as long as it's not busy and I don't have to go indoors for too long

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  3. Well done with your charity work. Such a wonderful thing to do.
    Ugh! It sounds so frustrating dealing with the issues with your daughters care plan. They deserve your complaints.
    Fab photos. I love the one of Bob and his friend. How lovely to meet up with Mary & Galina! x

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    1. It's been a great week all round, apart from issues with the care home

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  4. Nice to get out and meet up with Mary and Galina. Sorry about all the issues with you daughter's care. Sounds like there's lots to sort out.

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    1. There's always stuff to sort out with our daughter, it gets very frustrating

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  5. What a lovely photo of the twins. And how lovely to meet up with both Galina and Mary! Lovely photo of Bob and his friend too. You must be so frustrated with the care home and all of their mistakes. I feel angry for you!

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    1. Simply had enough of the care home now and appears there is little I can do about it sadly. Been great meeting up with everyone this week

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  6. Nice to have some meet ups with friends! love the photo of the Bob and the other dog!

    I would not be impressed either with addresses etc being released if they were not meant to! That is a serious breach.

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    1. I'm really enjoying the social distancing meet ups with family and friends as often as possible. I'm not letting this matter with SS drop

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  7. Thank God you don't have the virus. Wow, so awesome for you to support so many charities. We put up a blackout blind for my sibling because they study at night and sleep a daytime. That's a jigsaw? It's looks so 3-dimensional. How is it so stable? Awww so nice to meet other project 365ers. The picnic sounds like fun. May your father rest in peace.

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    1. Thank you. The jigsaw puzzle soon fell apart, it was the first time it had been put together

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  8. Nice you managed to keep busy with so much this week. Great to meet with two bloggers and on the same day as well.
    Nice for you mum to be getting out and about a bit, ready her for when she gets back home.
    Oh no at more blunders by the care home

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    1. I'm trying to get out and about every day, i'm enjoying the slower pace of life

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  9. Plenty of #366 meet ups! Very jealous! I'm sure you can get the care home on a GDPR issue... #project366

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  10. You have had plenty of meet ups this week. Annoying about the care plan - it all seems very frustrating.

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    1. My friends and I have said we prefer to carry on meeting this way, even when the virus is over

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  11. I’m sorry that you’re continuing to have issues over Child 1’s care plan and not having any answers over the autism diagnosis. How lovely to meet up with Galina and with Mary and her son. A day out at Eastnor Castle sounds like it was a nice way to mark the anniversary of your father’s death. #project366

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    1. It's been a lovely week and such a great way to remember my father

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  12. Wow that's incredible how much you have done for charity over the years, you are quite the inspiration. I had a look at the Kindness like Confetti facebook page lovely photos of the good they are doing.

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    1. Thank you, it's been hard work trying to raise funds during the virus

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  13. Sounds like you managed to enjoy some lovely days out / meet ups with friends. Glad the report came back for your daughter and hope you get everything sorted

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    1. Nope still not sorted, response times delayed due to Covid, but we'll plod on

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  14. What a busy social calendar this week for you. Your commitment to charity for vulnerable children is admirable, you really are awesome. x

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  15. Oh how lovely that you got to meet up with Mary and her son - I hope you had the best time! Lovely to hear you have been getting out on lots of lovely walks, shame Bob didn't get on with the pig though!
    Such an amazing thing you did out in South Africa and even had a hand in it when in Dubai. Will go and check out the charity you are now involved with! Hope you are well and enjoying your week! Sim x

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    1. Thank you. Bob and I are loving getting out and about, won't be happening again for a while with planned travel ahead

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